We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."
"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is that we can create our own connectors for any application, and NetWitness provides the training and tools to do it."
"It's fully scalable. There is no limit. Of course, the license limits per day the number of terabytes. In my opinion, it's very flexible."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the TAP Dashboard. It provides more detailed information that can be used for forensic analysis. This is an advantage that other email security providers, such as Cisco, IronPort, or Microsoft do not offer in their dashboards."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products."
"The product's licensing models are complex to understand. This particular area needs improvement."
"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."
"Security needs improvement."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."
"The threat detection capability and centralizing and upgrading capability need to be improved. The threat alert capability needs to be improved as well because there is some lag time at present. They need to work on their database search too."
"The multi-tenant capabilities are lagging compared to IBM QRadar."
"The initial setup is very complex and should be simplified."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"They do not have an on-demand scan for the internal viruses and internal users, and they don't have a scan for the exchange server against viruses and spam as Symantec does."
"The price could be improved."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 19th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail.
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